When OpenAI introduced GPT-4, the new version of the language model, it took a giant step in the development of artificial intelligence; in fact, it may have been too big a step, because now voices are being raised asking for its development to be stopped.
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However, OpenAI is still in progress, which is understandable; After all, it has a significant advantage over rivals like Google Bard, and if it doesn’t lose it, it can establish itself as the new benchmark in the tech industry. This is why the company decided to accelerate the development of the new version of GPT.
It will be GPT-5, and why it can be revolutionary
According to what leaked developer Siqi Chen, the end of GPT-5 training is scheduled for next December. Therefore, the launch could take place earlier than expected, given the progress made with GPT-4.
Even more surprisingly, OpenAI believes that GPT-5 will be able to achieve AGI, Artificial General Intelligence (Artificial General Intelligence), also called “strong AI”; In other words, it would represent the greatest advancement of Artificial Intelligence in history, as it would gain many characteristics of human beings.
The AGI concept consists of an artificial intelligence capable of carrying out the same tasks as a human being, and until not so long ago it was something more typical of futuristic novels about the rise of robots. But there are already several projects that have the ultimate goal of creating an AGI, and in OpenAI there are those who believe they can achieve this.
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI
Of course, Chen later clarified that this realization is not a consensus within OpenAI, but at least there are people within the company who believe it will be possible. It’s more likely that GPT-5 won’t make it to AGI, but the very fact that the possibility is already being raised should come as a surprise.
To begin with, there are still many unresolved questions to consider that an AI is an AGI, starting with its own functioning. For example, if you still need initial text for your designs. Chen proposes that would work more with “goals”, which the AI could try on its own instead of having to follow the user’s designs; Plugins, recently introduced with GPT-4 and allowing AI to connect to the internet and other applications, will also be important.
At this time, it’s unclear if OpenAI will finally announce GPT-5 as an AGI, or just a major step up from GPT-4. What is clear is that the AI discussion has only just begun.
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